Why Dr. Slump Deserves as Much Recognition as Dragon Ball
It's always been a past-time anime fans to discuss different characters' power levels. Many a forum thread or online article has been devoted to those sorts of inquiries. And perhaps no series is more famous for this sort of debate than Dragon Ball, which introduced power levels as a concept in the first place. In debating the strongest character in Dragon Ball, it's perhaps somewhat ironic that one of the strongest contenders on that list is originally from another series entirely.
Arale Norimaki, an innocent-seeming robot girl with long purple hair and big glasses, is still seriously considered to be one of the strongest of Akira Toriyama's creations. But perhaps what truly sets her apart is she was also one of his first. Arale is one of the main characters of Dr. Slump, Toriyama's first successful manga, which ran for 18 volumes from 1978 to 1984. Unfortunately, that success has been muted in the west to the extent that most fans outside Japan only know of Arale thanks to her appearances in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Super, along with a few video games.
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The title character of Dr. Slump is actually not Arale, but Senbei Norimaki, the man that created her, and has since claimed her to be his younger sister. The elder Norimaki is a genius inventor not unlike Bulma, but with the perversion of Master Roshi and the occasional thick headedness of Goku. He pines after Arale's schoolteacher, Midori Yamabuki, who he eventually marries. Arale is chaos and childish energy embodied, made even more dangerous by the fact that she's insanely strong. In fact, she's strong enough to split the Earth in half with a punch. The characters all live in Penguin Village, a remote and rural town filled with all
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